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Verizon is looking desperate amid latest pricing gambit (Light Reading)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Wed, 07/13/2022 - 16:49Podcast: Vistabeam's Matt Larsen on the reliability of wireless and pitfalls of federal funding (Light Reading)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Wed, 07/13/2022 - 16:48Skeptics fret over federal broadband map
Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel shared an update on July 1 announcing the FCC had opened its new system to collect information on where 2,500 broadband providers deliver service. Providers have until September 1 to submit data. The new federal broadband data is supposed to make up for the Form 477 flaw, or the fact that the FCC has historically relied on coverage data per census block, as submitted by internet service providers.
President Biden's net neutrality strategy looks doomed
There is mounting evidence that Gigi Sohn [Senior Fellow and Public Advocate at the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society], President Biden's nomination to the Federal Communications Commission, may never get Senate approval. That could spell the end of his efforts to reinstate the agency's net neutrality guidelines trashed by former President Trump. Without Sohn, Biden's FCC will remain deadlocked with two Republicans and two Democrats, and therefore won't have the votes to move forward with net neutrality.
Charter snags lion's share of Kentucky broadband funds (Light Reading)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 11:34LTD bails on Rural Digital Opportunity Fund buildout in California (Light Reading)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Fri, 06/24/2022 - 11:34Mike Dano | Thoughts on the evolving battle among US fiber, cable and 5G providers (Light Reading)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Thu, 05/12/2022 - 01:55Baltimore investigators discover hundreds of slipshod small cell installations (Light Reading)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 04/12/2022 - 12:17Do 5G providers need to own a fiber network too?
AT&T and Verizon – two of the nation's biggest 5G mobile network operators – own extensive fiber holdings around the country, and both argue that such ownership is critical to their long-term success. T-Mobile and Dish Network, on the other hand, are building extensive 5G mobile networks (though Dish hasn't yet switched on commercial services) without owning any fiber whatsoever. And, according to both Dish and T-Mobile, that's just fine. So, which side is right?